Family support strategies & collaborative practices

Home-based parent education models recognize the critical link between children’s school readiness and their learning ______. For this reason, Parents as Teachers emphasizes ______ as a key component of parent-education programs for families of young children.

• at home; home visits

• at school; parent trainings

• in the community; adult literacy programs

• in the cultural context; health screening

Parents may resist attending school-based parenting classes if they think the school finds their parenting skills to be inadequate. Which answer identifies a potential family-supportive solution to this parent participation barrier?

• Hire experts from outside the school to conduct the classes so families will not feel judged by the school

• allow families to select which trainings they will attend from a menu of options developed by administrators, teachers, and staff

• support family and community leaders as they organize parenting education events in the school

• hold the same trainings at a convenient location in the community, instead of at the school

Family-friendly and family-supportive schools help parents to help themselves. Parents develop ______ to meet their own unique needs.

• flexibility

• efficacy

• formal supports

• informal supports

According to the principles of family support, schools recognize the importance of having ______ their school-family partnership.

• community involvement for

• instate funding for

• bipartisan political support for

• established principles for

School staff work together with families based on ______ and recognize families as a(an) ______ to themselves and to other families.

• child development principles; asset

• equality and respect; resource

• evidence-based practices; expert

• community needs; advantage

What are the principles of family support designed to do?

• They give preschools and other early learning centers the structure needed to support the academic, social, and emotional needs of young children.

• They define the requirements for implementing family-school partnerships and suggest methods to evaluate the success of each step of the implementation process.

• They provide guidance in developing principles that tell educators how to work with families to ensure they are supported and strengthened.

• They guide state and federal legislators when developing policy related to early childhood learning practices.

Which answer represents a set of beliefs and is also an approach to strengthening and empowering families across the life span in ways that will positively affect children’s development and learning?

• family support

• parent education

• parenting style

• family stages

Which term affirms that families differ from one another in their ideas, viewpoints, and abilities to work with educators?

• compadrazgo

• family support

• respeto

• differentiated parenting

Which answer describes a practice that will help teachers to accept parenting styles that are different from the style they experienced?

• judge families from the perspective of the parenting style of your own family

• 
  practice differentiated parenting

• form opinions about parenting styles based solely on cultural generalizations

• 
  encourage parents to mimic your classroom discipline style in the home

In families with ______ parenting styles, adults are concerned with helping children understand the reasons behind the rules rather than enforcing strict adherence to them.

• 
  permissive/neglectful

• permissive/indulgent

• authoritarian

• authoritative